Indiana Travel

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At a turkey shoot during pioneer days, the typical Indiana frontiersman would hang back, leaning on his long rifle, while the visitors and city folk did all the talking. Then he would prime his piece, step up to the line, and win the turkey Hoosiers, as Indianans like to be called, remain much the same today: calm, competent, and competitive — colorful, too, just not flamboyant.

The same can be said of the state that is their home. It is a green, leafy, unpretentious sort of place, with plenty of trees in the cities and towns, patches of woods scattered here and there across the rural countryside, and dense forests in the south.